Not the Official Tourist Guide to Scotland Quiz

Answer: At a football match

The football club Dundee United F.C. are nicknamed the Arabs. Incidentally, the Pyramids do exist beside the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. They are grass mounds in the shape of pyramids near a business park where at certain times of year, red sheep roam. The rest is a product of a fertile imagination.

Answer: Northwest Scotland

The Little or Lesser Minch separates the Island of Skye from the Lower Outer Hebridean islands. The Minch, or the Northern Minch, separates the Inner Hebrides from the islands of Lewis and Harris of the Outer Hebrides.

The Munros do exist and are mountains over 3000 feet high, but the Little Minch isn't one them.

Answer: The meal was invented in a Glasgow Indian restaurant

Chicken tikka masala is reputed to have been invented in the Taj Mahal restaurant in Glasgow by its Bengali owner and chef, Sultan Ahmed Ansari. His granddaughter claims he invented it in the 1950s, but it is more likely to have been in the late '60s.

It is almost certainly a Scottish invention, although other cities have claimed it as well. It is reputed to have been invented by accident when a diner complained that his chicken tikka was too dry and the Indian chef rustled up a sauce using condensed tomato soup, yogurt, and spices.

A curry was born!

Answer: The city of Edinburgh

Auld Reekie is an affectionate nickname for the city of Edinburgh. It comes from the days when smoke and smog covered the city almost constantly. This was a product of the coal and wood which were burned as the main means of heating.

Other choices: The One O' Clock Cannon does exist, and there is a waterfall at Bruar, but unfortunately no volcanic mountain near Inverness.

Answer: The city of Glasgow

Paradise is the nickname of the home ground of Glasgow Celtic F.C. in the east end of Glasgow. Little Egypt is a district near Tollcross just over a mile away. Try checking it out on Google maps.

Answer: A seafood dish originating from this town is served all over the world

Cullen Skink is a type of soup or chowder made from smoked haddock. It is served as a starter in many a fine restaurant throughout the world. Try it--it's delicious.

Answer: Moscow, California, Dallas

Moscow is in Ayrshire, California is near Falkirk, and Dallas is in Moray southwest of Elgin. Of the others, Little France is in Edinburgh. Houston is in Renfrewshire and Little Egypt is in Glasgow. Don't ask me what came first, the chicken or the eggs?

Answer: The Perth to Aberdeen Road

Perth is known as the Fair City, and on the road to the Granite City or Aberdeen you would pass through Dundee, or the City of Discovery. Aberdeen has many granite buildings, hence the name. Dundee is named after Scott of the Antarctic's ship "Discovery", which was built in the city and now has a permanent home on the city's waterfront at Discovery Quay.

Answer: An optical illusion that makes you think you are on a hill rather than a decline

Electric Brae is a popular tourist attraction, but at one time it was thought to be another type of attraction--an electric or magnetic one! Electric Brae in Ayrshire is a stretch of road where an optical illusion leads you to believe you are on an incline rather than a decline. Watch your ball or car roll up that hill!

Answer: On an island on Loch Lomond

Inchconnan Island on Loch Lomond is the home to an estimated sixty wallabies. Lady Arran Colquhoun introduced them to the island in the early 1940s and they have bred while roaming wild ever since. They have become a local tourist attraction. Seemingly, there is a similar colony to be found in the Peak District in England.